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I know that ‘general business’ cannot be listed on an Agenda for an AGM however our EC constantly lists “general business” on the agenda for EC meetings.

I attended a workshop held by SCA relating to EC’s and how they should be operated and the facilitator advised against having “general business” on the agenda since “general business” involves “chatting” and items raised under ‘general business’ are not minuted.

The secretary sent out an agenda for an upcoming EC meeting and listed ‘general business’ as an agenda item.  I contacted her and asked for this agenda item to be removed since it was vague and that I had been advised against including ‘general business’ as an agenda item.  The secretary came back with a comment that she had copied what a previous secretary did (he has not been on the EC for over 4 years) and it would remain.

I have searched through information relating to meetings and can find where it states ‘general business’ cannot be discussed at an AGM however I cannot find anything documented that ‘general business’ should not be listed as an agenda item for EC meetings.  Can anyone shed any light on this?  I agree with the facilitator of the workshop and the common sense logic however our EC are like so many others – have bullies who always seem to out vote the others so I try to point them in the direction of the written word except in this case I only have the ‘spoken word’ of a sensible facilitator – any thoughts/input would be appreciated.

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